ROGUE EMPIRE LYRICS

1. Overlord I

Deep beneath the sand and steel, there is a world waiting to be revealed.
Is this hell am I nothing but your slave? I know that I’m not meant to live this way.
Wake me up from this nightmare, I can’t be living.
No, this can’t be real.
Your system is failing, now watch it all come down.
Let me paint a better picture then the one that you’ve drawn.
You’re nothing but a plague, when will you be gone?
Beneath the sky of an absent god,
How many have to die until you have to admit that you’re wrong?
We have lit the path to our future, with the darkest of lights.
Inescapable dependence. Inescapable life.
We have engineered our very existence.
We are nothing but slaves.
Veins turned to wires, have we all lost control?
I fear our minds are not our own.

2. Overlord II

We would feel the fear, if we could only feel at all.
We have all become mindless drones, nothing more than idle machines.
How much more can we push? How much further can we go?
How much more can we take from a world we used to know?
We have built this panopticon, beneath the throne of our mechanical leader.
Blindly we fall into chains of despair.
You have everything to lose.
We have everything to gain.
Surrender your Will to our command.
“Hail to the Throne!”
For we are more than gods.
We are your Overlords!
Our only enemy is ourselves.

Overlords.

Our only fault is self-destruction.

3. Hallowed I

Carve me hollow and fill me with your disease.
We’re not the people we are supposed to be.
This existence isn’t permanent; we’re merely images that will all disappear.
They’ve taken everything. All we know is gone.
You left me behind to die, without a chance to survive.
Tell me there’s a way, and that we’ll all get out alive.
Tell me there’s a way and that we'll all get through this.
Tell me are we all alone. Tell me I need to know, I feel so far from home.
Murdered by the hands of the world that sheltered us.
Murdered by the ones who swore that they’d always protect us.
Blinded by your false sense of justice, you’re driven by greed.
Taking lives by the thousands like knives to our throats. Spilling blood till it all comes out.
I believe it’s time that we cut the head right off the fucking king.
And when there is no one left standing,
I’ll take your throne and burn it to the ground.

4. Hallowed II

This is what it all comes down to, nothing but me and you!
This is what it all comes down to, nothing but...
This is what it all comes down to, me and you.
I fear no man, no god, no pain that you could ever cause.
No matter how hard it gets, we’ll never turn away.
We’ll never back down, never stop fighting.
As long as there is any hope that things can change.
I’ll strive to be a better man, strive to find a better way.
For so many years we’ve been here drowning in a pool of our blood.
For so long, I’ve been captive in shackles.
Chained to the wall, my life is not my own. I am not a soulless man.
I’ll do whatever it takes to get my life back.
Am I only some lifeless vessel? Am I only some lifeless drone?
What I would give if I could mend all of the things you’ve done.
If I could go back and right all the wrong…
Instead I am stuck in this war, and there is nowhere left to run.
In this empty place we’ll echo across the air waves.
Our sound will always be the hand around your throat.
Choking the air from your lungs.
You better cherish every breath, for it could be your last.
Choking, choking on your tongue until it all fades out.
I am everything they’ve read you stories about.

I am hell.
I am endless agony.
I am penance.
I am death.

The final consequence for all your careless actions.
Until the day that I die, before I close my eyes,
Just know that I will always hunt you down.
I’ll never rest until you’re dead and gone.
I am infinity and I am your demise.

5. Misdirected

In this endless ocean with no ship to sail,
Are we even headed in the right direction?
I feel so anxious, I feel so helpless.
This awful paranoia’s taking over me.
Breathe, just breathe, this can’t be happening.
Feel the wind at your back, and the warmth of the sun on your face,
Soon it will all be gone.
We are the hands writing the final chapter,
Turning the page because we know we must go on,
And through the darkness, through all this emptiness,
We’ll be the light tonight to guide you all back home.
Please, I’m begging, please!
Take your hand’s from my neck and allow me to breathe.
I am not mechanical, but I am your creator.
I brought you in and I can take you out.
I am all around you, I am everything.
No matter what you do. No matter where you go.
How can you sleep at night?
How can your conscience find the peace to let you close your eyes?
Just like a disease, I’m spreading through your body.
How long until I’m in control of everything?
You are an infection desperate for a cure,
you are an abomination.
You don’t deserve the life you have and I will gladly take it back.
Tell me how does it feel to watch the hell you built slowly fall apart?
Beneath your falsely feet, beneath your false led feet.
I know that I am meant to change and bring the world around,
I know that I am meant to change the world.
This is the closest to heaven that you’ll ever see.
This life is beautiful, this life means everything to me.
Beneath your hate, your greed,
I know that hope will set us free.
Maybe someday we will all work together,
Maybe one day we will all exist as one.
Now more than ever, I hope for a brighter way,
Than the one that’s been laid out before us.
My motivation is what beats inside me,
And my determination forces me to be everything.
We must become, we must become the change we wish to see.
In this endless ocean with no ship to sail,
Are we even headed in the right direction?
I feel so anxious, I feel so helpless.
This awful paranoia’s taking over me.







ROGUE EMPIRE LYRICS